A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future... Quotes

“Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, its still okay to feel responsible for someone else's. Live and to learn.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...

“Don’t spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned

“If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...

“If you're lucky, in some point in the future when you're in need of guidance or perhaps moral support, you may cross paths with a suitable mentor. Even luckier, you'll realize you had one in your life all along and you'll gain a new appreciation for how you benefited from that relationship. The luckiest relationship of all, of course, is a combination of the two. You've had help all along, and as the path widens or narrows, whatever the case may be, new and powerful influences will enter your life and aid your progress. In my experience, a mentor doesn't necessarily tell you what to do, but more importantly: tells you what they did or might do, then trusts you to draw your own conclusions and act accordingly. If you succeed, they'll take one step back and if you fail, they'll take one step closer. Whatever it is they teach you, pass it on.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...

“Live and try.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...

“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectation.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned

“Personally, I didn't take a single photograph while I was there, but that's not all that unusual for me. I suppose my aversion to snapping pictures may have something to do with shaky hands and blurry results, but there's another reason: The act of lifting up the camera and positioning it between me and the object of my interest separates me from the experience.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...

“I might have skipped class, but I didn't miss any lessons.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned

“Being in control of your own destiny is a myth—and wouldn’t be half as much fun anyway. Pay attention to what’s happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, it’s still okay to feel responsible for someone else’s.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned

“They have hopes and dreams that may echo or overlap your own. And there's no reason why you can't make room for them. But what's happening to you right now, precisely at this instant, belongs only to you. Own it... This is your moment. Let someone else take the picture... just smile.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...

“Don't worry about him," Nana would assure them. "Michael will do more in his life than you can ever imagine.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...

“As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked my father, up my ass.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...

“When describing me, Tracy often refers to a well-known concept of physics: “inertia.” As Newton avers in his first law: An object that is not moving will not move until a force acts upon it. An object that is moving will not change its velocity until a net force acts upon it. In other words, depending on what’s happening in my life at any given moment, I can either be the laziest human being on the planet, or the busiest. I’m perfectly content to do absolutely nothing until I’m catalyzed by some person or project, and then I go nonstop until some countervailing force acts upon me, and I revert back to static mode.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned

“Still, what's happened before and what may happen later can't be as important as what's happening now.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...

“A missed opportunity doesn’t preclude the possibility of new opportunities, or even better ones.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned

“In my experience, a mentor doesn’t necessarily tell you what to do, but more importantly, tells you what they did or might do, then trusts you to draw your own conclusions and act accordingly. If you succeed, they’ll take one step back, and if you screw up, they’ll take one step closer. Whatever it is they teach you…pass it on.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned

“Recovering alcoholics have an expression: “If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you’re pissing all over today.” With all that’s happened, it’s been liberating to understand that I don’t have to carry the weight of all my disappointments or expectations. Sometimes it just is what it is. I can accept that.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned

“Explaining how the two of them, up there in the Green Mountains, had managed to dial down life's urgencies and dial up its pleasures and richness, Gary put it beautifully and poetically: "We've discovered a way" he confided with a sense of gleeful wonderment, "to bend time." I imagined Tracy and me engaged in a similar conspiracy a dozen years or so from now.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...

“It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to learn.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned

“...Nobody gets a straight shot to the top. Life is not linear. There will be detours along the way. For the curious, new clues will await at every turn and may keep pointing toward the chosen destination. Or maybe you'll stumble upon information that will inspire you to change course altogether, delivering you to a future you never could have imagined.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...

“One's education is never complete. A missed opportunity doesn't preclude the possibility of new opportunities, or even better ones.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...

“I think I am a realist. The reality is that things change; the question is, how will I perceive that change, and am I willing to change along with it? It may seem hard to believe, but it’s catastrophe that offers the most promise for an even richer life.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned

“Bhutanese believe that economic development should never come at the cost of their people’s happiness. Therefore, in every trade deal the government enters into (for example, the sale of hydroelectric power to neighboring India), culture is valued more than cash.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned